Daiktavardiams

Daiktavardiams is a Latvian grammatical term referring to nouns. Nouns in Latvian, like in many other languages, represent people, places, things, or ideas. They are a fundamental part of speech and play a crucial role in sentence construction.

Latvian nouns are characterized by their grammatical gender, number, and case. There are three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter. Nouns can be singular or plural. Latvian has seven cases: nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative, and vocative. Each case serves a distinct grammatical function, indicating the role of the noun in the sentence. The declension of nouns, which involves changing their endings according to gender, number, and case, is a significant feature of Latvian grammar. Understanding daiktavardiams and their declension is essential for proficient use of the Latvian language.